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Stefan Buda
30-07-2013, 11:51 AM
Hello everyone,

My first post on IIS and my first Saturn image in two years.

The seeing was very jittery so I had to keep the exposures short and that led to very noisy frames. Used 700 from 3500 for each colour.

Nothing remarkable that I can see on the image.

Cheers,
Stefan

Shiraz
30-07-2013, 03:34 PM
welcome to IIS Stefan. That surely is an excellent image for the conditions - looking forward to more from that big scope. ray

Quark
30-07-2013, 04:23 PM
Hi Stefan, Welcome, great to see you here certainly is nice to see another planetary imager posting. Congrats on this Saturn.

Regards
Trevor

batema
30-07-2013, 04:35 PM
Hello Stefan, beautiful shot. What equipment were you using?

Larryp
30-07-2013, 05:18 PM
Nice image, Stefan :thumbsup:

Matt Wastell
30-07-2013, 07:19 PM
Welcome to ISS and what an entrance! Thanks for the fine view!

Stefan Buda
30-07-2013, 08:13 PM
Thanks everyone for the welcome and comments.

Mark,
It's a home made 16" Dall-Kirkham.

I just came in from a failed attempt at imaging Saturn again. I did not switch on the active cooling on time and the temperature was falling way too fast for the mirror to come to equilibrium in the short time span I had.

asimov
30-07-2013, 11:17 PM
Ah, anyone that's been planet imaging for awhile would know the name Stefan Buda :) Welcome to the site, & a nice image to open your account with Stefan. Good to see you here.

iceman
31-07-2013, 05:21 AM
Welcome to IIS, Stefan! Nice to have you here.

Stefan Buda
31-07-2013, 09:43 AM
Thanks John and Mike,

I've been meaning to join for a long time but I don't like rushing things :).